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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by treis on Saturday April 27, 2019 @02:46PM (#19766992)
Of course it does. They can easily convert 3% of their market cap into cash via bonds or issuing new stock. If the fine we're 150% of Facebook's market cap they wouldn't be able to.
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Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook? by codethief on Sunday April 28, 2019 @12:36PM (#19772062)
I don't think it is as easy as you portrait it to be. (See my response to your comment's sibling.)
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